Christopher D Murphy Home Address: Available on request Term Address: Available on request Work Address: Physics Research Building, The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210, Tel: +1 614 247 2076, E-mail: cmurphy-at-mps.ohio-state.edu Nationality: British - currently holding a J-1 visa Date of Birth: 31st July 1980 EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS 2002 - 2007 Imperial College, University of London, London UK. PhD in Plasma Physics. Research work mainly carried out at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (commencing October 2002). Additional research done at University of California, Los Angeles, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany) and IOQ, University of Jena (Jena, Germany). 1998 - 2002 University of Glasgow, Glasgow UK. MSci in Chemical Physics Awarded 1st class MSci (hons) degree on 6th July 2002 Awarded a bursary by the University for Excellent Entrance Qualifications 1992 - 1998 St. Joseph's Academy, Kilmarnock UK. 2 CSYS at A; Mathematics (General), Mathematics (Mechanics) 7 Higher Grades at A; English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computing Studies, Biology and Music. 8 Standard Grades at grade 1 (including French) EMPLOYMENT Summer 2001 The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA Nuclear physics intern. Developed and conducted computer simulations for a feasibility study into the triplet photon polarimeter. Travelled with the group to the National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, VA to witness first hand an electron beam facility. Presented findings to the group and the department. 1998 - 2002 Odeon Cinemas Ltd. Glasgow (2000-2002) / Kilmarnock (1998-2000) UK Customer Service Sales Assistant / Relief Cash Controller General duties and increased responsibility in cash handling and end of night safe reconciling. June 2000 University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Laboratory Assistant Reviewed experiments for 2nd year teaching laboratory. SPECIAL SKILLS * Held a full driving license since January 1998. * Achieved Certificate of IT Competence awarded by the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. * Created my own personal web-site using HTML. * Fully competent using computer packages such as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. * Familiar with Unix / Linux based systems. * Acted as Target Area Operator (and deputy operator) for both high power laser systems at the Rutherford Appleton Lab INVITED LECTURES AAC Workshop 2004, Stony Brook, NY Rank Prize Fund Mini-symposium in laser plasma interactions 2005, Grassmere ICFA Joint Workshop on Laser Beam Interactions and Laser and Plasma Accelerators 2005, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan SELECTED PUBLICATIONS * Monoenergetic beams of relativistic electrons from intense laser-plasma interactions, S P D Mangles, C D Murphy, Z Najmudin, A G R Thomas, J L Collier, A E Dangor, E J Divall, P S Foster, J G Gallacher, C J Hooker, D A Jaroszynski, A J Langley, W B Mori, P A Norreys, F S Tsung, R Viskup, B R Walton and K Krushelnick Nature (London), 431, 535-537, (2004) * Observation of mono-energetic structures in the spectrum of laser wakefield accelerated electrons, C D Murphy, S P D Mangles, Z Najmudin, A G R Thomas, J L Collier, A E Dangor, E J Divall, P S Foster, J G Gallacher, C J Hooker, D A Jaroszynski, A J Langley, W B Mori, P A Norreys, R Viskup, B R Walton and K Krushelnick, 11th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop Stony Brook, New York, 21st - 26th June 2004, AIP Conference Proceedings 737, 853-857, (2004) REFEREES Prof Peter Norreys Prof Richard Freeman Head of Plasma Physics Physics Research Building Central Laser Facility The Ohio State University CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Columbus OH, 43201 Chilton, Didcot USA Oxon OX11 0QX